Hi AB I got my Vitadone pills

suzy wrote:

Hey Alf, Are you feeling any better yet???
I'm starting to feel a bit poorly today, maybe a cold coming on too.
The water is fixed thankgoodness but I have a feeling it's only a matter of time before the whole system needs replacing. It's old and is probabley on its last legs.
A far as sculpting goes I've got my clay out :-) and looked at it!!! Nah..lol. I have made an armature for a bust, I threw the last one I made out the studio door in a fit of frustration and anger , but gee it felt good!!!!
I'm actually thinking of using paper clay for this one It's air drying and once it's dry you can sand it down before painting it. It is very strong and durable.
I've dropped my dose to 4mg and I'm fine on that. I suppose having those 3mnths on the Sub and away from the Methadone has given me a lower tolerance for it now perhaps???
Are you into the Super Bowl thing Alf? Madonna was splashed across the news over here and the crowds were HUGE!!!
I truly hope your feeling better by now..
Talk soon, Suzy

suzy wrote:

Hi Al...how'd that soup go down??? You on the mend yet big guy??? I hope you are. I'm doing ok still on the 4mg and sleeping well, getting back into the swing of things/work etc..I think I'm going to stay on this dose for another couple of weeks before I drop again as I'm liking the stability at the moment. I'll see the liver specialist first then go from there.
Paper clay is an air drying clay the one I use is specifically made for sculpting wher durability and strength is needed. I ended up using the polymer clay anyway and have made a start so thats a positive step. I think it would be so good if you could get yourself some work space to hone your skills with your guitar making.. I find it can be quite cathartic at times, my little hurdle is taking the initial first step and once I get going I get lost in the piece which is good for me it takes me out of my head..and I feel great once I've completed something..
Yes... And now it's at 122 Al....hope to see you at 123.:-)
Hope to hear some better news on that rotten virus you have... Stay warm and rested.get well Alf
Yalk soon.... Suz

suzy wrote:

Ahhh....Hello Alfonso de Oregano...... ;-) hehe...
Yes definitely staying on the 4mg at the moment, not ready for the ride again just yet.
Gee I hope it will go relatively smoothly for me next time I give it a go Al. Having the hindsight I now know that I would have been better off tapering straight off the Methadone but you live and learn.
Yes wait till your on your game before you start playing round with potentially dangerous tools Al, we don't want you loosing any fingers.. I've had a few small accidents with pointy objects during the sculpting process and It's no fun!!
Your in good company with the night sweats Al.. I'm getting them too, different reasons but waking up in a sweat..I'll be glad when thats a thing of the past.
Al do you hoover those ciggies back... or are you a light smoker?? I think I told you I had one or two last weekend( I gave it up about 10 yrs ago) anyway that first drag on that cigarette was pretty good but I haven't had any since.
Now to the weather....It's still pretty dismal we get about a half hour window of sunshine after the rain momentarily subsides which keeps us in those humid conditions..And this has been continuous for weeks now.
I'm still sleeping pretty well thankgoodness apart from the occassional night sweats..
Better post I'm slow tonight.
Sending positive vibes in the hope your beating that wretched bug down into the gutter where it belongs.. It's been a doozy!!!
Talk soon..........Suz

RxMan wrote:

Hope you guys (Suzy & Alf) don't mind me leaving a message on your thread. It's so nice to just sit back on a lazy Sunday afternoon, reading your posts back & forth.
Nothing but positive support back & forth. I keep forgetting about the title of the thread & once in a while when I see it, I think, "Okay, so you got your Vitadone pills !!!" LOL. Then I click on the thread & realize it's good ole' Alf & Suzy communicating across the globe !!! What say we all meet up at a central location---say Chicago ??? LOL !!!
Well take care---just wanted to stop by & say hello & keep on keepin' on !!!
RxMan

RxMan wrote:

Hope you guys (Suzy & Alf) don't mind me leaving a message on your thread. It's so nice to just sit back on a lazy Sunday afternoon, reading your posts back & forth.
Nothing but positive support back & forth. I keep forgetting about the title of the thread & once in a while when I see it, I think, "Okay, so you got your Vitadone pills !!!" LOL. Then I click on the thread & realize it's good ole' Alf & Suzy communicating across the globe !!! What say we all meet up at a central location---say Chicago ??? LOL !!!
Well take care---just wanted to stop by & say hello & keep on keepin' on !!!
RxMan

ABC 52 wrote:

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Hello Sweet Suzy, I think the nasty bug is finally giving up, yay!! I woke being able to breath this morning, w/o having to reach for a decongestant. It's been a long time since I didn't start my day with that stuff. The down side, now I'll have to do all the cleaning I've used being ill as an excuse to put off.
I don't recall having night sweats as a symptom of my detox. Maybe I did and just don't remember it. Anyway, it won't be long for you now, and all the annoying little things will start to fade.
I smoke about about a pack a day now. I've been as high as 3 a day, and as low as 1 ciggy a day. The 1 a day was when I was taking Chantix and trying hard to quit. So close. Ah well, I rarely drink. I might have a cocktail if I'm out for dinner but that's about all. I've smoked pot just 4 times since I got off the M, and just a couple of puffs then. That seems strange now, because I smoked it daily for over 40 years. For the moment at least, stopping the cigs has left my radar. You can't imagine how many times, and how many ways I've tried to stop.
Correction to your post; Oregono... not Oregano. I guess I'm sensitive about this place I call home. I truly love Oregon, sometimes I wish we could be our own country, and not just another state. No one knows for sure where the name comes from, but it's likely a mispronunciation of something early French explorers heard from natives in the 1600's. Whatever one calls it though, I'm still awed by the scenic beauty. Not that other places aren't beautiful too, but it's home, ya know!
Keep on keeping on, Suzy, you're almost there now. Three more drops and it's done.
I better git before I'm timed out. Hope you have a great day, Al

suzy wrote:

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Heya Rx man........okay Chicago it is!!!! Ha ha the Alf and Suzy show!! Nice of you to say G'day!!!!
Thanks.......Suzy

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suzy wrote:

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Hiya big guy!!!
Oooops haha, oregano I mean Oregono. Nice place I believe Oregon, a friend of mine went there once I think Portland?? She said there was a lovely chinese or Japanese garden that she saw plus some other places I will have to ask her again what they were.
Yes thats the other draw back of being sick, the house work doesn't get done and then you need to tackle it all at once. I've been catching up on some the last few days. I let a few things slide when i was going through the sud detox.
Al it poured here last night and there is about 4inches of rain up against the side of the house, I hope it doesn't get any worse I should probably try and syphon it away I don't think it's healthy to let it sit there especially since it does look like the rains coming back. There's been some flash flooding in a few places over the past few days. I'm on the coast so we haven't copped it quite as bad and I hope it steers clear.
Al my night sweats are from going through the perimenopause thing I think and GUESS WHAT??? I was reading up on this 'Burning tongue' syndrome again yesterday because it was sending me nutz ;-) and BINGO.... It can affect perimenopausal and menopausal women ,maybe thats why it's lingering. I'm still pretty sure it was the Sub that started it off though because I never had anything like this before I took it.
Nice to hear that bug is almost squashed, you must be so over it, well you are 'over it' It's not fun to have been crook at all let along for this duration I feel for ya Alfonso..:-)
Ahh well a pack a day is better then 3 packs so good on you for getting it down to one. I know so many people that struggle with giving up ciggies. It's hard I know I was lucky in the sense that I was never a heavy smoker, never smoked first thing in the morning got up to about 3/4 pack a day and that was it...
Ahh better post too
Talk to you soon Al.......Suz

ABC 52 wrote:

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Ah yes, that makes sense now, the burning tongue issue. It's not at all uncommon for a drug or medication to precipitate an underlying issue. Without the Sub, it may have been just a little tingle, or may not have even developed. Isn't it interesting how trying finding one thing, leads to so many more things. That's how my interest in methadone has gone.
You don't ever mention a husband, Suzy. I hope someone is treating you to a nice Valentine Day, or Evening. As for me, my current "special girl" is to your left, the one with her heart showing. That's OK, she's not very demanding, ya know. Doesn't even like chocolate, so she's a cheap date, but not very affectionate either. I've come to love her all the same though, she's a very good listener.
Happy Valentine Day, again, Al

suzy wrote:

You don't want to come to Chicago then Al......hmmph ok.. How bout we meet um somewhere else!!! I don't know ...whats half way inbetween????
Dang my father was done over by his business partners too....the bastards took foods out of our mouths while he was laying in intensive care on deaths door, they told my mother they couldn't afford to pay her his wage and one of them kept phoning me up saying " It doesn't look good does it love"? I think he was hoping I'd give him some hope that dad would croak so they'd have a fall guy. Any way dad eventually pulled through and the other three guys ended up all dying of heart attacks within 7yrs. Dad was raked over the coals and lost money his car etc etc but they got their karma I suppose.We got a phone call one night about 2am in the morn panicked because we thought it was the hospital saying dad had gone and it was one of the partners pissed to the eyeballs saying sorry, sorry,sorry I don't know which one it was.
Gonna post and come back in a tic Al

ABC 52 wrote:

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Not counting some little atoll's, and a few tiny deserted (inhabited by birds and rats) Islands, Hawaii is pretty close to half way. You made me look. It made me think of a story I saw about a sailing couple that was murdered on Palmyra Is. The story talked a bit about all the rats, and that visitors usually slept aboard their boats. I like to sail but I'm not a blue water sailor. More of what we call a gunk holer. That mostly means that you tie up somewhere at night, and can run in from a storm. I'm not so adventures anymore that I want to sail the seas. Maybe in the Queen Mary is all.
Sorry to hear of your fathers illness and his unscrupulous partners. Mine was much easier. I shared a taxi with the fellow and there wasn't to much he could beat me for except my time and the cab expenses. It was a decent business back when I was in it. I'm not sure one could still make a living at it now. I guess I kept at because it was easy to find a driver if I wanted to take time off. Before I owned cabs, I drove for someone else and took most summers off. Instant money, and that I could take time without loosing the job was the lure when I was young. Then, I just kept doing it.
I've had a few relationships. The only one I'd call serious had the misfortune of the lady dying. It was after that that I got strung out on H, but I'd played with it for a long while before hand. She was an alcoholic but working pretty hard on recovery. We'd have probably just enabled each other, who knows. So, somehow I managed to stay single. Every married mans dream, well, may not every one's.
Talk to ya soon, Al

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Al my ex hubby was a cabby for years back in the day and like you said when you could make some decent money out of it. I remember it was always a race back then for the best jobs, he'd go out about 11pm and sometimes didn't need to work right through because he'd make enough cash before the shift ended but it's very different now and your right I don't think they'd be making a decent earn. A different era now.
I'm sorry to hear you lost your love Al. Has it been long since she passed if you don't mind me asking.. My sister lost her man he was a drug addict and it literally killed him that was 10yrs ago now and she coped fairly well at first but has fallen back into old habits again and her kids are suffering...It's hard to see but I don't know what else to do for her, I've tried and tried to no avail.
Well I've made myself some feel good mixed music cds today. I upload all mine to itunes then pick out all my faves and put them on new cds so I'm happy with that. I like to listen to when I'm sculpting or house work lifts the spirits a bit.
The man I mentioned is also a drinker thats his addiction, he has the begginnings of cirrhosis of the liver but continues to put 3 long necks of beer and a bourban away daily, doesn't get drunk it just gives him his fix I suppose. It's a worry...maybe like you guys thats what we have/had in common our addictions?????
You still feeling ok Al???.......Suz

ABC 52 wrote:

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Small world isn't it Suz! Tracey died in Nov,'96, so a bit over 15 years now. When I see old vet's from WWII, reliving the loss of buddies in the war, how choked up and sad they are, even all these years later, that's when it strikes home that some things are with us for ever. The sting of loss is always just under the surface.
I hope your sis can pull it back together Suzy. It's so hard watching friends or family in self destruct mode. Having been there, I guess we know it doesn't look the same from that side. Let her know she's hurting you and the kids, that's about all I know to do, then hope she comes around. I guess there are drastic measures you can take too, better if she can come 'round on her own though.
If your buddy is to the point of cirrhosis, it's doubtful he'll pull out of his tail spin. I know that you know that too. We can't save the world, or everybody in it, but we can help and we can help ourselves. For me, if I can help someone off of M, I get to feel like I've paid back a fraction of the help I've had through live. A fraction is all I have to give so it'll have to do.
Glad you got tunes together, what's your taste in music? There's little I don't like, but a lot of it is about the mood of the moment. I guess I'm a lot rocker, but not usually heavy metal. I like a lot new age stuff, even Goth, but the oldies from my earlier days still bring pleasure. Sad about Whitney, can't say I was a huge fan but God, what a voice!!
Gotta get moving. Later gator, Alf

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Heya Al, yep it always dtays with us...the loss..I guess time just helps to come to terms witht hat loss.
Hmmmm well as for my music I could go on for ever about my different tastes as I have many like you say alot depends on the mood. It ranges from Ben Harper, Tex Perkins, some Tom Waits stuff, Neneh cherry, Annie Lennox, The cranberries, Chilli Peppers,The Cure ,Faith no more, The John Butler trio, Kid Loco, Powder Finger, Jet, Arrested development, Ben Lee, Athlete, Gomez, Paul Kelly just to name a few there's so many more..Boy oh boy!
Well we have a lovely summer day today Al 26dg I will go and spend 15mins out there to soak it up and get some vitamin D.
I had a pretty quiet day yesterday it was good I'm finally feeling like I'm starting to find my feet again. I 'm also starting to think alot of my symptoms are probabely mostly hormone related noe that I've been researching it some more.
You seem to be on the mend some more...did you get that cleaning done yet?? Or is it too much too soon??
Talk soon.....hope your having a good night/ day which ever it is right now..........Suz